Friday October 2, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Online Zoom Meeting
Dear Colleagues:
Greetings, and I hope that you and yours are healthy and safe in this socially-distanced time.
As part of that distancing, we’re continuing the “Friday Lunch” as an online event. After over thirty years of in-person discussions it’s a bit of an adjustment, but it also allows former participants living all over the country to participate again.
It will be a great pleasure to virtually welcome and hear from Rob Fischer about the vexed and seemingly eternal issue of lead poisoning. The cognitive and other health consequences of lead exposure have been known for decades. Since 1975, new cars have been manufactured with catalytic converters that required lead-free gasoline. The use of lead-based paint in homes has been banned since 1978. Yet developmental consequences of early childhood lead exposure, mainly from the dust of lead-based paint that was painted over decades ago, remain a major health problem, especially in impoverished areas of central cities. The pattern has been called the “poison to prison pipeline.”
Professor Fischer and Professor Claudia Coulton recently documented the “Downstream Consequences of Early Childhood Lead Poisoning” from a longitudinal study of Cleveland children. He joins us to discuss research about the problem and potential responses, and how that research has or has not been incorporated in public policies. This program is co-sponsored by the Schubert Center for Child Studies.
Signing In
This semester’s discussions will begin at 12:30 p.m., the usual time. The meeting will be set up as from Noon to 2:00 p.m., so people are not all signing in at the same time and to allow for the discussion to run a bit long. Each week we will send out this newsletter with information about the topic. It will also include a link to register (for free) for the discussion. This week’s newsletter will be posted on our website on Wednesday: fridaylunch.case.edu.
If you register, you will automatically receive from the Zoom system the link to join the meeting. This week’s link for registration is:
https://cwru.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqfuuqqjkiG9HgN7-RriBykOk9m9LSikbm
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Please e-mail padg@case.edu if you have questions about how the Zoom version of the Friday Lunch will work or any other suggestions. Or call at 216 368-2426 and we’ll try to get back to you. We are very pleased to be partnering this semester with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program to share information about the discussions.
Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Robert L. Fischer is an Associate Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, where he leads a range of evaluation research studies and teaches evaluation methods to graduate students in social work and nonprofit management. He is also Co-Director of the The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. Since 2001, he has led the Center’s research on Invest in Children, a county-wide early childhood initiative that includes home visiting, children’s health, and childcare components. Dr. Fischer is also faculty director of the Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) degree program.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
October 9: TBA
October 16: Covid-19 and the Economics of Health Care. With J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance.
October 23: COVID-19: Rapid Research and Rapid Revelations. With Mark Cameron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
October 30: Election Forecast Discussion. Speakers To Be Determined
November 6: “Banning the Box”: The Substance and Politics of Legislation to Reduce Obstacles to Hiring Felons. With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics.
November 13: Targeted Assassinations and Other Red and Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon E. French, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Inamori Professor of Ethics, and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence
November 20: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over the Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
December 4: The Economics of Sports After (?) COVID-19. With Jonathan Ernest, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics. |
